Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800 / David Gentilcore.

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

x, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Healthy food: Renaissance dietetics, c.1450 to c.1650 -- Healthy food: the fall and rise of dietetics, c. 1650 to c. 1800 -- Rich food, poor food: diet, physiology and social rank -- Regional food: nature and nation in Europe -- Holy food: spiritual and bodily health -- Vegetable food: the vegetarian option -- New World food: the Columbian exchange and its European impact -- Liquid food: drinking for health.